Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Spivak is a piece that focuses on how the experiences and the feelings produced from these lived experiences of marginalized groups are skewed by second hand reports from white academics and media. Spivak’s piece immediately made me think of a Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “The Danger […]

In this YouTube video, Joy DeGruy shares a story of her trip the the grocery store with her white-passing sister-in-law where Joy is discriminated against for paying with a check, even though her sister-in-law had no issue paying with a check just moments earlier. By using this video, we can see that the decision to […]

This Ted Talk by Kimberle Crenshaw directly correlates to her literature piece we read in class. Her Ted Talk begins with an elimination activity where the audience stands and she begins naming off names of people who have died as a result of police violence. If anyone in the audience does not recognize the name, […]

This YouTube video is from Ingrid Nilsen, who is a popular YouTube personality, and has become more exploratory in the realms of politics and social issues in the recent years. Ingrid publicly came out as a lesbian on her YouTube channel in June of 2015 to her large audience, and the entire Internet. More recently, […]